BARRY MASTELLER
RECENT WORK
Currently Available
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Masteller is clearly a master observer of atmosphere, light and dark, natural form, and their interplay. The results are solemnly harmonious pictures. No apologies for haunting beauty; it remains credible, despite the attacks on it by different modernists, among them Duchamp and Newman. Beauty conveys the esthetic conviction that is the core of art at its most intimate.
Donald Kuspit.
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While distinctly contemporary, Masteller's canvases betray the influence of those early pioneers who recognized California's singular fusion of land and light as fruitful ground for a more meditative approach.
For Barry Masteller as well as for his historical predecessors, the landscape serves as a conduit to unknown worlds and hidden dimensions.
Masteller's works remind that paintings not only represent but also exist as physical landscapes. They reflect a keen understanding of paintings as three-dimensional terrains, formed by sedimented layers of pigment, binder and varnish, and built up, like geological formations, over the course of time.
Marcelle Polednik. Director / Curator Milwaukee Museum of Art.
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Masteller is a conceptual painter: he unites fragments of the urban environment--carefully chosen from a repertoire of photographs--to create a kind of picture puzzle, that is, a representation that conveys the unreal look of every convincing representation even as it precisely realizes reality. The empirical is subsumed in the enigmatic, making for a sense of uncanny truthfulness, however factually bizarre the picture finally seems.
Donald Kuspit. American Art Critic and Poet.
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Journey Home. 66 x 54 in. acrylic on canvas. 2019
Lavender. 54 x 48 in. acrylic on canvas. 2019
More Than Whats Left. 66 x 54 in. acrylic on canvas. 2019
Convergence. 54 x 48 in. acrylic on canvas. 2019
On a Clear Day. 48 x 48 in. acrylic on canvas. 2019
Night Shift. 66 x 54 in. acrylic on canvas. 2019
Story Board. 50 x 40 in. acrylic on canvas. 2021
Tucked Away. 50 x 40 in. acrylic on canvas. 2021
What is Left is What Remains. 30 x 26.5 in. oil and acrylic on birch panel. 2019
Requiem. 54 x 48 in. acrylic on canvas 2018
Red Line. 54 x 48 in. acrylic on canvas. 2018 / 2021
Between a Mesa and a Sand Dune. 66 x 66 in. acrylic on canvas 2018
Alluvium. 66 x 54 in. acrylic on canvas. 2019
Together. 66 x 54 in. acrylic on canvas. 2021
Green Line. 66 x 54 in. acrylic on canvas. 2019
Elements. 54 x 48 in. acrylic on canvas 2018
Close To Home. 30 x 26.5 in. oil and acrylic on birch panel. 2019
Stone Water Air. 30 x 26.5 in. oil and acrylic on birch panel. 2019
Pleiades. 48 x 48 in. acrylic on canvas. 2019
Chance and Circumstance. 66 x 66 in. acrylic on canvas 2018
Time Lines. 48 x 48 in. acrylic on canvas. 2019
Reflections. 54 x 48 in. acrylic on canvas. 2021
Humming Bird. 26 x 24 x 2 in. acrylic on panel. 2019
Fog Memory. 26 x 24 x 2 in. acrylic on panel. 2019
Imaginary Day. 26 x 24 x 2 in. acrylic on panel. 2019
Syncopation. 24 x 22 in. acrylic on panel. 2019
Landscape With Quinary. 24 x 22 in. acrylic on panel. 2019
Sweet Spot. 48.5 x 24.5 in. acrylic polymer and graphite on panel. 2019
Countdown. 27 x 19 in. acrylic polymer and graphite on paper. 2019
Passion Play. 26 x 24 x 2 in. acrylic on panel. 2019
Beyond a Shadow. 26 x 24 x 2 in. acrylic on panel. 2019
Southern Light. 26 x 24 x 2 in. acrylic on panel. 2019
Present of the Past. 48.5 x 24.5 in. acrylic polymer and graphite on panel. 2019
Resonance. 38 x 24 in. mixed media on panel. 2019
The Otherside Of Night. 26 x 24 x 2 in. acrylic on panel. 2019
From Time to Time. 26 x 24 x 2 in. acrylic on panel. 2019
Synergy. 26 x 24 x 2 in. acrylic on panel. 2019
Flying. 27 x 19 in. acrylic polymer and graphite on paper on. 2019
Glimmer. 48.5 x 24.5 in. acrylic polymer and graphite on panel. 2019
Borderlands. 26 x 24 x 2 in. acrylic on panel. 2019
Not By A Thread. 26 x 24 x 2 in. acrylic on panel. 2019
Playground. 26 x 24 x 2 in. acrylic on panel. 2019
Foundation. 26 x 24 x 2 in. acrylic on panel. 2019
Virtual Exhibition of Recent Work.
TIME LINES
8.5 x 11 in. 40 page perfect bound catalog with 35 color images and text.
$20.00
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NEW MEXICO COLLAGE PAINTINGS
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Rhyme and Reason 1. 24 x 16 in. oil, acrylic, mixed media
and cut 1991 painting collage on panel 1991 / 2022
Rhyme and Reason 2. 24 x 16 in. oil, acrylic, mixed media
and cut 1991 painting collage on panel 1991 / 2022
Rhyme and Reason 3. 24 x 16 in. oil, acrylic, mixed media
and cut 1991 painting collage on panel 1991 / 2022
Okey-Dokey 1. 24 x 16 in. acrylic and mixed media on panel. 2022
Okey-Dokey 2. 24 x 16 in. acrylic and mixed media on panel. 2022
Okey-Dokey 3. 24 x 16 in. acrylic and mixed media on panel. 2022
A selection of current 6 x 6 inch. (15.24 x 15.24 cm) mixed media paintings on canvas.
Available for onsite purchase, click on grid to go to page.
Currently Available
Juniper. 30 x 30 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 2022
Translation 12. 6 x 6 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 2022
Translation 50. 6 x 6 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 2022
Translation 53. 6 x 6 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 2022
Translation 54. 6 x 6 in. acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 2022
High Ground Elegies A compilation of recent paintings by Barry Masteller with accompanying text, biography and 2022 interview.
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